Today was an interesting day for me.  I went “home” (it’s 17 min. by highway from where I live—not much for travel this weekend, lol) to a family fun field day at my old neighborhood’s park.  It was great to see so many people that I grew up with at this event and to see their children.  It brought back lots of great memories and it was just a feel good time for everyone. 

For me, that lasted about 30 min.  Then I started taking stock in the joint.  Who was truly taking care of themselves and who was not.  I want to make sure I point out that when I do this, I am not looking at monetary status items or etc.  I am looking at teeth, hair, nails, skin and etc.  This is my job!  Gotta stay on it!

But I began to notice a trend.  The ones that really looked good and were healthy all had some common traits about them.  I will call them the “Beautiful People” and the following is a list of their traits that help their cause.  First, so you know how I came about this list, I surveyed those that I could as to what they were up to nowadays.  Second, I remembered much about them from when we were younger.  Lastly, I have added my experience from working with other BP.  What I ended up with is a top 5 list of things they are doing that you may not be for you to review:

1.        Eating Fat

Honestly if you are not eating a source of good fat everyday you might as well just cut right to the chase by heading to your nearest vacuum cleaner and just manually suck the years off of your life now.  Why wait until your 45-50 years old?  Put a new vacuum cleaner bag on right now and just remove those precious years from your metabolic cup.  Sllllllpppppppppp!  Better yet, go buy a good face paint set from Silly Farms and draw the wrinkles in now.  Put 2 very deep creases on either side of your mouth, crows feet by the eyes and add at least 1 inch of extra skin on the belly that just hangs there.  Pretty huh?

2.       Sleeping

Here’s a hot one for you.  Now I am truly the pot calling the kettle black on this one because Lord help me if I sleep more than 5 hours a night, but I have made this a priority and I have gotten better at it as I am averaging about 7 hrs/night right now.  But if you really want to lose weight, maintain a great body or stay on the young side of life you will get in the bed now.  In fact, you’ll sleep at your desk at work too.  And when your mate breaks into a long winded story, you’ll check out for a few minutes there too.  Just don’t nap while driving because I will drive you right off the road and think nothing of it!  And stay out of rotaries…ugh!

3.       Dotting Their I’s

These people just do that little extra.  They measure their food, they seek out the best moisturizers, they plan ahead, they find the best places to shop, they get the best deals, they are always 2 steps ahead of you.  They are just connected!  Now…again, I am not casting stones here.  I am not this person.  Getting my underwear on without both legs in the same hole is an accomplishment for me.  It’s funny, I am a makeup junky who will have a perfect face for the day and will leave the house with a big ole’ stain on my shirt from oatmeal that morning.  Clearly I am not one of the Beautiful People.  When you find one, study him/her.  It will amaze you.  BTW, this is my husband.  Can someone just tell him to get over himself?  GRRRRRRRRR.;o)

4.       Optimizing

This is sort of an add on to #3.  Beautiful people are not impatient.  They do not become frustrated over little things.  If they do not like how an outfit looks, they will take it back and get another.  If they cannot find the right hairdo for an event, they try different things every night til they get it.  They take the time to lose weight, they take the time to pick out accessories, they seem to have a silent resolve that just puts a hush in the room.  They know what they want and they are not going to stop until they get it. So they are always improving and optimizing.  They understand that they are not going to get it right the first time around–even if they look like they do.

5.       Restoring

Not the same as sleeping, this one is almost baffling to me because I don’t understand why I do not do this as much as I should.  Beautiful People restore themselves.  They rejuvenate.  If you ever try to clutter up their day with a bunch of things to do, they won’t do it.  They’ll shut you right down before you get to task #3.  They do not over exercise, under eat, worry incessantly over details (because they took care of them already), miss their facials or manicures.  No, these folks understand that their maintenance is priority and you essentially are not.  Do not mess with their schedule, it has been set since last Sunday!

Standing there made me realize that those that were gorgeous when we were younger just “got it”.  They knew what was up.  And the rest of us are now just getting the memo.  Standing their talking to some of them go through their days and how they schedule and manage things made my head spin.  All I could think to myself is, ‘No wonder you are stunning.  I would be too if I could do half of these things.’  Ugh.

If you can get at least 3 out of 5 of these onto your schedule, you will be in good standing with the Beautiful People.  Anything more than that and you are living the life!  Let me know if you think I missed any!  In the mean time, I’m going to get some ketchup off of my pant leg.  *Sigh*